The Young Woman Found In An Idaho Gravel Quarry — And The 12,500-Year-Old Burial That Complicated The Clovis Story
No samples were retained for potential future genetic analysis, and even if they had been, the reburial effectively ended any possibility of future sampling.
This is not a criticism.
It is simply a description of the sequence of events and the state of knowledge at the time.
The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of Fort Hall requested repatriation under Idaho state law, and that request was honored.
The reburial was carried out in December 1991.
The full scientific report was published in 1998, drawing on the analyses completed before and around the time of reburial.
The absence of genetic data is one of the things that makes the Buhl burial’s contribution to peopling-of-the-Americas questions incomplete.
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